120 BC

February 2011 -120 120 __NOTOC__ Year 120 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Manilius and Carbo (or, less frequently, year 634 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Yuanshou. The denomination 120 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Osroene In this year the kingdom of Osroene is founded. The kingdom would last until 244 AD Events By place Europe The Teutons and the Cimbri migrate south and west to the Danube valley where they encounter the expanding Roman Republic (approximate date). Asia Minor Mithridates VI Eupator becomes king of Pontus.Kerr Anne Wright Edmund 2015 Mithridates VI https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199685691.001.0001/acref-9780199685691-e-2427 A Dictionary of World History Oxford University Press 21 December 2025 China Retaliating against the Han conquest of the Hexi Corridor in the previous year, the Xiongnu invade the provinces of Youbeiping and Dingxiang, killing or capturing over 1000 inhabitants.Sima Qian Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Xiongnu, Section: Wei Qing & Huo Qubing Births May 21 – Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC) Berenice III, reigning Queen of Egypt (d. 80 BC) Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, writer and politician (d. 67 BC) Verres, corrupt praetor (approximate date) (d. 43 BC) Deaths Hipparchus, Greek astronomer and mathematician, on Rhodes (approximate date) (b. c. 190 BC) References